The Working Class Library
The Working Class Library
Podcast Description
The Working Class Library is The Bee’s podcast. Each month Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, and Claire Malcolm, CEO of New Writing North, invite a writer to discuss a book and decide whether it deserves a place on the shelves of the Working Class Library – our imaginary library of great books by and about ordinary people.
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The podcast focuses on literature intertwined with working-class themes, exploring books that provide insight into the experiences of ordinary people. Episodes revolve around significant works such as Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, which illustrates the struggles under 1980s economic policies, Hilary Mantel's Giving Up the Ghost, highlighting the impact of a working-class background on personal and professional identity, and George Gissing's New Grub Street examining the literary landscape's class dynamics.
The Working Class Library is The Bee’s podcast. Each month Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, and Claire Malcolm, CEO of New Writing North, invite a writer to discuss a book and decide whether it deserves a place on the shelves of the Working Class Library – our imaginary library of great books by and about ordinary people.
For the eighth episode of the Working Class Library, the globally bestselling author Lee Child joins hosts Richard Benson and Claire Malcolm to talk about Dreda Say Mitchell’s groundbreaking 2004 novel Running Hot.
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